skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an example from my own experience: There's a significant number of trans women who work in tech. And almost all of them started transitioning as adults, in their 20s and 30s. So, they had the "benefit" of male socialization growing up, and being encouraged more to dabble in computers/tech/engineering. Much fewer trans men (and non trans women) in tech, it seems.

Also, the number of women historically majoring in CS dropped off significantly in the 1980s, when 1. Video gaming culture started to take off and 2. Hardware (something seen as more masculine) started to be emphasized more often. Like, programming historically was something women with math and CS degrees did, then I think there was a greater influence of hardware and tinkering with your hands that was part of being in tech. Stuff that is traditionally seen as more masculine.
The original article in .net mag was really difficult to read, I gave up part way through.

After reading Laura's post I went back to it but no still gave up part way through.

The original author was on a hiding to nothing as I think it's really difficult for guys to well write about sexism
True. Especially in The Netherlands, when you buy a second-hand bike (for example for commuting to the train station) it is very common to invest the same amount of money in a quality lock.

At bigger train stations in NL, often there are guarded parking areas for bicycles. Smaller stations are likely to have 'bike lockers' for rent.
I'm terrified if flying, but I'd be about a thousand times more terrified of riding that train.
>you need a robot to pull the ripcord

Actually there are systems in place in a lot of parachutes that will set off an explosive charge to release the pilot chute once it reaches a certain altitude.
The idea is that they know it's business, not personal. There's no potential hidden agenda about trying to bang your co-worker that there might be if you were single.
And here's the original BBC article, which is even better: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19907546
VMWare did acquire SpringSource. Even though they mainly focus on Java and the Enterprise they might have had some other development tools they had dabbled with. Perhaps there are some hints in the source of where the code came from.
The problem with this analysis is that it doesn't take into account the fact that better wing profiles also improve performance by reducing drag, as we have seen with sailplanes in the last thirty years.

A modern sailplane can fly at higher speeds than those with thicker wing profiles with less drag, optimizing the lift. This is an approach that modern airliners could follow, optimizing the lift and reduce the drag, to save on fuel, not reducing the speed.

The engine is not the only thing that can be optimized.

http://soaringcafe.com/2011/01/concordia-supersegler/
I really like your point about how men are more likely to be reluctant to grab a casual drink (or even one-on-one lunch, I would say) with women to talk about work because they are worried it will be seen as "flirty." Based on my experience this can have a really big impact, but I don't see it discussed very often.

Being able to have easy, casual friendships and one-on-one conversations with your coworkers can be extremely important to knowing what is going on and what you should be doing to succeed. Like you said, there are opportunities that come up in these meetings that you just don't get otherwise.

I don't think this is even a conscious decision to avoid seeming flirty a lot of the time, wanting to do things outside of work with same-gender colleagues might just feel more natural. This can make it easy to miss the fact that women are being left out, and I think a lot of men don't even realize what a disadvantage this can be.
They could do better. I bought a Kindle this summer and when I brought it back to school it started complaining for me to download the newest special offers. When I tried, it complained that it can't connect to my school's "Enterprise" Wi-Fi network.

So I guess they're not making ad money on me until I finish my first few books and go to a coffee shop to get my next one.
Yo Dawg! But more seriously, is that carefully arranged structure required for it to work as shown? It seems a slight variation would cause it to evolve into disarray.
Even if you don't like games and you like startups, this is a great book. These guys took their passion and made something awesome. And they bootstrapped it AFAIK.
This Kickstarter project with a completely new, futuristic looking airplane design seems fairly confident that there is.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/launchsynergy/synergy-ai...

(I'll have to defer commenting to someone with knowledge of physics than me)
I don't see Python as an option?
I voted you up, but I don't think so. Some worthwhile pieces to read and contrast --

Loss leaders (common to almost all retailers):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

The razor-and-blades business model, made famous by Gillette:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing

Compare that to predatory pricing --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

Predatory pricing is most possible when a large profit systems-based company can run a loss in one area to destroy competitors to the system. For instance, British Airway cutting rates on a New York <-> London flight to very cheap if a new carrier emerges to challenge them, even losing money on the route while having the rest of the airline subsidize them.

It'd be possible in air travel, because the gains are potentially huge. Airline seats are incredibly perishable, so the additional revenue from flying with a more full plane is very worth running short-term losses to get, and by keeping the general route fares high it could help them a lot. Also, because there's limited airline landing slots, they won't necessarily face constant competition -- if the competitor goes bust and someone like BA can buy their airport slots, they've further entrenched their position against future challengers in multiple ways -- they've got the landing slots, and financiers saw the previous company go bust, making it more difficult to get capital.

How does that differ from razors-and-blades or loss leading? I think it comes down to intent. Discounting, taking no gain, or even a small loss to win a consumer's attention and business seems worthy, especially when developing new markets. Discounting strictly to destroy competition, with the intent of raising prices very quickly after the competition goes bust -- that's more out of line. A quick acid test might be, "Would this be a viably pursued strategy if there was no competition?"

And with legitimate loss-leading, you could say yes. Someone will go to a liquor store more off if there's a cheap decent beer or wine on sale, regardless of competition in the area. People would potentially buy more disposable razors if the initial package of working razor comes in at a cheap price point, so it's easy for new people to try it out. Likewise, the Kindle.

All of these strategies establish market positions and gain market share, which is obviously somewhat to the potential detriment of would-be competitors (...well, unless it grows the market more than grabs market share...) -- but loss leading or razors-and-blades seems to focus more on attracting the consumer than bankrupting the competition.
It's not really wrong. It makes the correct point that randomized controlled trials are only one kind of useful knowledge. It's possible to know stuff that can't be tested that way, so blind insistence on EBM is likely to throw out some babies along with all that bathwater.

Seth Roberts often makes similar points in his blog - people running experiments on themselves of size N=1 can often discover stuff that is useful, even vital, but can't be discovered or demonstrated in a big double-blind study.

Imagine that we had no scruples and were willing to throw people out of aircrafts with dummy or with real parachutes. The ones who had parachutes would still notice when the parachute opened and slowed their fall. So we can't rule out the placebo effect! :-)
yep- just installed ytalk on my Debian dev box for this. Works great!
Print restrictions? Let's talk about side-by-side articles, bundling commentary essays with the main feature, boxed info and the whole shebang of stuff that just doesn't seem to work on the internet (and I sorta doubt it will work on tablets, but I'll give it a try). It's stuff that's basically possible thanks to two things: the magazine and broadsheet formats, and extensive editing.

Just because Internet is modern doesn't mean it doesn't come with restrictions of it's own. Even automated syndication things like Flipboard managed to emulate the look of a magazine, but not the feature that is editing and selection of content by someone competent, but who you only sort-of agree with.
Um, they might want to read up on a little machine that came out within a year of the Grid... namely, the TRS-80 Model 100.
There even is a 3D version of the SmoothLife algorithm out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaOnOVGepI

Very very cool stuff!
Blocking any spam that contains a link is helpful, for sure, but doesn't get everything. Every few months I see waves of comments like: "Really graet article. We need more people like you in the world."

Each comment has exactly one pair of transposed letters. There is no product being pitched, and no url (we don't display or link to email address either). It's baffling.
"I am yet to see one thing I (or anyone else) can do faster on a multitouch panel than I can do with a keyboard and mouse."

Slice through a banana, pear and pineapple at the same time on Fruit Ninja.
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That's so cool. I love to see real world applications of convolutions.

I wonder if there is an application of Gershgorin's Disc theorem here?
By their logic the "dark social" is ANY inbound link not coming from "Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YComb, Digg, Stumble" or do I get that wrong? If so, well, that is called the "Internet". It uses hyperlinks to send people between pages on it.
It's called "social web" for a reason.

Instant messenger and chat rooms and ICQ and USENET forums and email are not web. At most the OP is talking about the history of the Internet.

{The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[2] commonly known as the Web), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web}
So first of all, it doesn't say they're selling it below cost, and they are engaged in an overall razor-and-blade strategy that is profitable without the need to drive competitors out of the market. So factually, maybe not predatory.

In general, you would have to prove that Amazon has so much power in the market, and the market is so hard to enter, that they are likely to recover their losses from low prices now by charging higher-than-competitive prices later, without competitors coming in and undercutting them when they change strategies. Otherwise low prices are good for consumers and antitrust has nothing to say about it.

That said, Amazon already has a ton of power over book publishers, and they are trying hard to extend that power. If I were an antitrust regulator, I'd be trying like hell to make a case against them. But it would be tricky.
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Exactly- the box is simply a sales channel. Mobile phones could be thought of the same way, but people are still willing to pay.
You can't just use Flask straight out of the box. You need to put it on something. I've used Gunicorn with Gevent and it runs as fast as I need it to run. Gevent with Nginx as a reverse proxy play very well together and the responsiveness is more about how you're managing your DB queries rather than rendering the site. (I shy away from ORMs for this reason but still use sqlalchemy.)
I'm a young, white man too. Care to tell me how this makes me a privileged person?
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An useful maths theory; I don't know of any real-world applications (yet)
I would say that sexism in IT is not the major issue, there will always be places where there might be some, but I frankly never encountered those and women were treated well in all the places. Point that @mdkess makes about when female dev is bad it kind of is more visible and projects more to others is also good. I worked with some exceptional girls that code like best of us. However some other roles in IT might be better for women to start, like BA and QA and project management where frankly they excel.

What IT or tech industry could use more is professionalism which would also help with work/life balance. I think that would bring up pay which I consider low, even though it is better then other fields. It would benefit from more women entering the field, but how to attract them is tough problem to solve.
You mean like this? :-)

https://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/GNULinux/DebianPackage/
https://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/GNULinux/RpmPackage/

... this works and is the most conveninient way to use PageKite if you are treating it as part of the OS (so always on, exposing local servers).

However, in the context of security and trust, you really should think thrice before installing 3rd party repos like mine - once you have added my repo to your OS, I can upgrade any package on your computer with whatever malicious content I want. So folks who don't trust me and my curl-bash hack really shouldn't trust this sort of solution either.

This is why getting third parties to build, package and sign my software and getting into the public repos is the "correct" solution, but doing so didn't make sense while I was rapidly iterating. Things are starting to stabalize now, so I will probably be revisiting this very soon.
My work is 100% JavaScript so I'm always interested in new tools that can lift productivity.

One of the things I like about Scripted is how it shows jslint warnings and errors right alongside the corresponding line.

I also like the promise of writing plugins in JavaScript instead of Python, in the case of Sublime.

Bonus points for using Esprima to parse; I'm currently exploring using Harmonizr (which uses Esprima) as a way to start using ES6 syntax.
In a situation right now where I'm working with 2 co-founders (I'm not one myself, just on the sidelines) and they're bringing in an agency. The agency has offered to work for free, because they see a lot of potential in the project. I still think it's a bit of a mistake, even taking the money aspect out of it. The 'find/iterate' mentality from the article is the primary reason why.
Now just to be clear: This is a complete load of bull. I don't think whomever wrote this article has an iota of understanding of evolution. But it's good for a laugh!
No, any link with no set referrer. That exactly not stuff from other pages.
So submit a pull request. ;)
No, it is any inbound link to a page unlikely to be typed manually "blah.com/articles/random/crap/article-title-goes-here/35487623", that has no referrer header at all. Traffic coming from other websites will still have referrer headers, just traffic from email, IM, etc don't.
Hah! And how about... a big train?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agFWob0E7ns
Hey there,

Is the agency really working for free? Or are they taking equity in the project?
HTTPs would work but also if you scroll down a bit and look at the policy JSON (http://pastie.org/private/tkr7iyqzqrezmmqazbfijw), it has an "expiration" field which would mitigate the type of attack outlined in the parent post since after a period of time the signature would no longer be valid.
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Really cool explanations.

Quote: What you find is that it really just depends on a few factors: the shape and surface of the plane, and the efficiency of its engine.

It would also depend on weight. New planes are also lighter, as article mentions (eliminated aluminum sheets and fasteners).
Some other weight could be eliminated by replacing in-flight entertainment screens in every chair and wires required for them with tablets + wireless.
You are right, my wording was incorrect. I'll try to put what I wanted to say in the words of Dr. Thomas Puzak, IBM: "Everyone knows Amdahl's law, but quickly forgets it".

That said, Amdahl's law does NOT apply to problems, it applies to programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
What I was trying to say is that, from my experience, if you take an existing program and try to parallelize it with minimal effort (e.g. parallelize all loops), then you may end up with having a serious percentage of serial code. (Or you don't, because your data is large enough, see Gustafson's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_Law )
However, if you put in more effort and re-architect the program, you'll usually worry about a lot of problems, but Amdahl's law is not one of them. Yes, you didn't "avoid" Amdahl's law (and you can find counter-examples where Amdahl's law is a real concern).

I actually heard a talk about ordering in in-memory databases. It basically comes down to Gustafson's law: If your dataset is rather small, the overhead of parallelization (some of which can be attributed to Amdahl's law) isn't worth it, you just do it on one core. But because your dataset is small, it is so fast that nobody cares. If your dataset is large, each core sorts a subset. Then you start aggregating, and the final aggregation is serial. However, because you already have sorted lists, you can use a different algorithm that merges this very quickly (but would perform bad on unsorted data). I can't remember any specific numbers, but the bottom line was that even with a very beefy server that had 4 sockets and plenty of cores, the serial part wasn't an issue in terms of overall performance. Keep in mind that the author talked about a Multi-core myth and not a Many-core myth.

Again, I don't argue that near-linear speedup is possible for most problems. Most often it's not. But naming Amdahl's law as the only reason is wrong.
Of course it has to be precise to the cell.

The basic building block is the OTCA Metapixel http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
Pretty much every developer got access to web server. Why not just use ssh tunnels?
ssh -f -N -q -R 123:localhost:80 login@remote.example.com

The only difference is that your website will be on different port, e.g. remote.example.com:123

For me it is much easier to setup, cost 0$ vs. >= 4$ / month. I do not have to trust someone to run some random code with root privileges...

Am I missing something? The number of website which offer something that substitute ssh tunnel is astonishing.

Anyway, there is also free version by twilio:
http://progrium.com/localtunnel/
He may have focused too much on icq and email, but the point is still valid. Forums existed in the 90s. They were websites.
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what's stopping you? there's people doing that even today in 2012.
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There was no suggestion above to add Pocket or Readability support to the iOS app, just that by picking iOS, he chose a distribution platform that keeps apps much like his own from scraping the content.

If all publications worked this way, Instapaper couldn't exist.
He acknowledges this upfront. I'm not sure why he persists in using this terminology since he does know better. I think that he is correct so far as there is equivalent functionality in the older internet social tools and protocols.
Regarding the picture: yuck!

Many of these traits seem like Lamarckian drivel. Taller because we get good nutrition? That's current genetics being expressed, not evolutionary pressure.

The intestines may be spot on, perhaps obese people reproduce less for numerous factor (though I don't know I've ever seen a study on this, it may be true). The requirement here would be that the reason people are obese is they ingest too much sugar and fat.

Quadruple chins? I don't see the reasoning being valid here.

The the interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarkism
Basically: cutting the tails off dogs at birth won't result in no-tailed dogs being born after a few generations.
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The requested solution is to manage the warranty repair order process and related parts inventories at multiple 3rd party authorized service centers for a manufacturer.

My (possibly naive) idea is to build a re-usable solution that is something like a desk.com CRM app with an inventory module and the ability manage pre-defined services.

Target market? Could be another manufacturer like my client, or service/repair centers by themselves.

There are lots of GREAT CRM/support services: desk.com and zendesk.com just to name a couple. It doesn't seem like I can tie parts to their support cases for the inventory management aspect of the solution.

The closest I can find is this force.com app: http://www.servicemax.com/products/inventory-and-parts-logis...

If I can make the workflow flexible enough to cover different cases this could be even be extended to work as a field service tool by later adding a scheduling module and a maps/routing module for field technicians.
flying wings like the B2 are much less stable without computer correction, but significantly more efficient.

also, the SR-71 is very efficient considering it can cruise at mach 3.2, which is a pretty insane feat.
I have two exceptions to free speech: child porn and hate speech. Doxxing is dangerously close to hate speech. Its only purpose is to root out the guy or girl who made a controversial statement and punish him or her for making it. Without anonymity it is often difficult and dangerous to express reasonable, but truly controversial ideas.
State uni? We'll see. Firings are hard there.
We use Jira.

It includes - user time tracking, bug reporting, you can create Epic issues and add sub-tasks under them. All very useful.

You can also get FishEye to integrate SVN info.
What about Whispernet? I've downloaded books to my Kindle in the middle of seemingly nowhere over whispernet. Do some models not have access? That would be most unfortunate.
Nah..
I better wait for the game of life emulated in the game of life emulated in the game of life..

Sorry.. I was forced at a gunpoint to do that..
These kinds of numbers scare the shit out of me. Here I am thinking a couple of linodes may cover what I want (am intrigued by uptano (https://uptano.com/) linked above though).

How do I go about estimating my real needs? I mean, I hope you are running some major stuff for money whereby you save $60K a year. Holy shit!
I've actually been working on something similar in attempt to teach myself AngularJS. I just wired up CodeMirror to a file system tree provided to the browser using Node just as Scripted does.

http://i.imgur.com/HuAZi.png
I'll go get the mop to clean up the pieces of my brain that are now all over the floor.

After spending some time before reading up on the Game of Life, I'm amazed by this meta implementation.

By the way, why not go on and on recursively?
I believe any referral traffic from an https:// site will NOT send the referrer header. It does not seem like the article is taking that into account.